Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs. 8 cores 2995MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.8534 TFLOPS vs 0.3343 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 29.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2995MHz vs 2342MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (8W vs 11W)

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

233076

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus +259%

836957

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

391

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus +214%

1230

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

797

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus +374%

3778

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

334

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus +454%

1853

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus

CPU

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

Architecture

1x 2.995 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1)
3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55)

2342 MHz

Frequency

2995 MHz

4

Cores

8

1 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

-

L3 cache

0

14 nm

Process

5 nm

2

Transistor count

10.3

11 W

TDP

8 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Adreno 530

GPU name

Adreno 660

653 MHz

GPU frequency

905 MHz

1

Execution units

2

256

Shading units

512

8

Max size

24

0.3343 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.8534 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR5

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon 680

NPU

Hexagon 780

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 780

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP, 2x 25MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

X12

Modem

X60

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 22

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3000 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.1

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Info

Aug 2016

Announced

Jun 2021

Flagship

Class

Flagship

MSM8996 Pro-AC

Model number

SM8350-AC

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus

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